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Old Waldoif Bar Days
1915
Named in honor of a New Year. Some believe this was
the last cocktail invented in the old Waldorf Bar. Well, if it
wasn't exactly a "knockout," it did not require many to
produce that effect.
One-third
Cura~ao
One-third Cream
One-third Gin
One recipe given in the old Waldorf Bar-book from
which these names and ghosts of drinks have been compiled
was never served over the bar of that hotel. It was a stock
story, told by the bartenders for almost a generation. And
that it was faithfully repeated, there can be no doubt, be–
cause of the careful way it was written down. Even the date
when it was first imparted to some barman at the Waldorf
is given-May 7-but of what year, is not recorded; ap–
parently from the context one between
i899
and
1902.
The
'customer who left the s'i:ory was one Peter S. Hoffman, of
Chicago, who, according to the entry in the book, guaranteed
it would stimulate business for coroners. Whatever the ad–
vocates of prohibition claim in that direction, it is reprinted,
partly as a warning, and partly as a sample of the "latest
men's story" retailed in a high-class drink emporium of
some thirty years ago.
THE RECIPE:
T a·ke three Chorus Girls and three Men
Soak in Champagne until Midnight
Squeeze into an Automobile
.f\.dd a dash of Joy, and
A drunken Chauffeur
Shake well
Serve at Seventy Miles an Hour
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